My life as an exchange student

It was not as excited as everybody thought when I first arrived at Los Angeles. Maybe it is partly because I don't wana leave my family and freinds. When we(my mum, sis n me) arrived at the LAX(Los Angeles International Airport), we were welcomed by my sis friend (Rachel) and her uncle (Uncle Jaz).

The way from the airport to Uncle Jaz's home was so long to me. I kept thinking if I can really make it at UCLA(University of California at Los Angeles). Jetlag makes me so dizzy and uncomfortable but still we manage to stay until night then rest.

Can't really imagine time passes so fast. Look at myself, I'm already one month and 11 days at UCLA. And I still manage to survive XD. I would never forget that the 1st day of my uni was so messy. 1st of all, I duno how to walk from my dorm to the classroom. With an assistance of a map and my strange english accent, I managed to find my way to the class. Only at that time I just realised the lecture was 1 hour and 50 mins long T_T

The 1st thing I've done to my life: Stand out of my comfort zone, take initiative and talk to strangers. It's always like other ppl approach me 1st. But this time I make a difference to my life.

I still remember when I sat at the Bruin Cafe (One of the cafes on campus), I was sipping leisurely my 'Coffee bean and tea leaf' hot chocolate while having a quick reading at my lecture notes. But then there was a girl sitting next to me, eating something that looked so yummy. So my inner voice kept telling me that, 'c'mon, talk to her! Find out what that is!' So I relaxed myself a little bit and started talking to her. Our conversation went out pretty nice. Before leaving to my class, she asked for my number so that we would get dinner another time. It's not until my class finished then she texted and invited me to eat at De Neve(One of the dining halls). She even invited me to Santa Barbara to join a video-shooting camp.

Ok, seems so weird with this video-shooting camp right? Since Hollywood is in LA, one of the hottest courses in UCLA is movie-shooting. And she appears to be an assistant for the movie shooting students who arranges those shooting stuff and people. And the purpose of the camp is to teach some movie-shooting technics. Haha, imagine that I could probably meet those future directors of Hollywood movies.

But it ended up like... I didn't make it because due to those stupid assignments.. Now I kind of regret it. Yea, maybe I will ask her to invite me again next time.

If I was ever asked what the hardest part during my exchange life's at here, I would say it is kind of hard to meet new friends in my class. It seems like everyone already knew each others for a long time. And I was forced to fit in. Hate the feeling.. it was like a several times that my tears wana fall down in the middle of the class. The class is so long, stangers with high-pointed nose sit aound to me, every week assignments assignments.. It is only when I got here then I realise that Civil engineering is so hard. If I dun really try very hard at here, I'll definitely fail.. straight away with no doubts...

I know what the true meaning of 'miss' is now. When u dun get to see the ppl that u expect to see everyday, when u dun get to chat n talk to a person n get to know how she/he does everyday, the feeling makes u so.... I hate this feeling. It makes me so restless and weak. ' Do Everything, Regret Nothing' is what I found from the end of my exchange student's guidebook. It's time to see myself as an individual and conquer everything with the tiny little courages that can ever found from my soul... Once again, I tell myself, at least I'm not alone =)

During dinner, my fortune cookies read, 'Yes, do it with confidence!' then a bunch of weird number: 12 22 36 37 40.... *cough cough* I wonder what it's referring to..